NHL awards watch: Nathan MacKinnon leads an extremely tight Hart Trophy race

Throughout the season I’ll be breaking down the numbers behind the race for each major player award: the Hart, the Norris, the Calder, the Selke, the Vezina, the Art Ross and the Rocket Richard. Numbers of course aren’t everything, but they add much-needed context to the awards race and can help shine a light on players deserving of more recognition while adding caveats to other players that may have some warts.

6 Roman Josi Net Rating: plus-24.5 Next best player: Filip Forsberg, plus-19.1 Defense partner:, plus-12.5 and , plus 2.3 Evan Bouchard Net Rating: plus-24.8 Next best player: Connor McDavid, plus-30.6 Defense partner: Mattias Ekholm, plus-18.4 Advertisement The usage adjustments I’ve added to the model in the last month do account for that to an extent, but it’s still hard to vote for Bouchard over two guys who are The Guys on their team.

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